Sue Hanna

Academic qualifications

• PhD (Massey), M.A. (App) Social Work (Victoria), New Zealand
• BA (Victoria), Dip TESL (Victoria), New Zealand
  

Profile

Sue’s professional back ground is in Health Social Work and Statutory Child protection. She has worked in Social work education for fifteen years. Her teaching back ground is in practice skills. social work theories, management in social services, and health social work practice. Her areas of teaching specialism have been child protection practice and family violence.

Research interests

• Call centres as sites of professional social work practice
• Direct child protect practice, youth resilience, and looked after children
• Survivorship and living with the effects of chronic disease
• Social Workers as Immigrants

Research projects and grants

Current / recent research projects and contributions to the research environment

• Preparation of articles for publication following the completion of a recent research project investigating child protection social work practice situated in a call centre.
• Currently involved in an externally funded interdisciplinary research project investigating ‘Nurses use of online health information and heart failure resources in primary health care’.
• Member of the organising committee of the 20^th IFSW Asia- Pacific / APASWE Social workers conference “Many voices, many communities, social justice for all”, Auckland New Zealand: 10-13 November 2009.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Hanna, S. and Nash, M., 'You don't have to shout' - Vocal behaviour in social work communication, Social Work Education 31 (4) : 485- 497

(2011) Hanna, S. and Nash, M., Social work research and writing — The tactics of getting published, Australian Social Work 64 (3) : 395- 402

(2011) Hanna, S. and Lyons, K., European social workers in England: exploring international labour mobility, Social Work Review (Revista de Asistenta Sociala) X (3/2011) : 185- 196

(2010) Hanna, S., Call centres as sites of professional practice - "Where old social workers go to die", Australian Social Work 63 (3) : 266- 280

(Accepted) Hanna, S., “Covering the country”: After hour’s emergency child protection social work service, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 5 (12) : 103- 114